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TREE NEWS reports: Analyst PlanB said on X that bitcoin has reclaimed its 50-week moving average at around $79,000, with the 100-week moving average near $89,000 as the next target. He said he has confirmed the bear market is over, citing an August close of $78,571, the share of profitable bitcoin rising from 50% to 72%, and the monthly RSI climbing from 41 to 51.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain’s daily fees fell 97% from their early-September peak to about $230,000 on September 16, while transaction volume slipped only 32%, to 8.9 million transactions, suggesting the decline came from lower fee rates rather than reduced activity. At the peak, the network collected roughly $8 million in daily fees across 13.1 million transactions, averaging 64 cents each, versus 2.6 cents by September 16. Capital has not left in size: DEX volume over the seven days to September 16 was about $13 billion, up 5% week over week, and stablecoin supply dipped 1% to about $1 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Bastion Platforms National Trust Company has received conditional approval from the OCC for a national trust bank charter. The federally regulated entity will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single charter. The approval is conditional, meaning Bastion must still meet the regulator’s requirements before fully operating.

TREE NEWS reports: USDC Treasury minted another 250 million USDC on Solana at 19:13 Beijing time on September 19, bringing total new issuance on the chain to 500 million USDC within roughly 40 minutes. The mints add to the stablecoin’s circulating supply on Solana.

TREE NEWS update: SlowMist Chief Information Security Officer 23pds said black and gray-market actors have built a full attack chain against iOS users that extracts private keys and seed phrases. The chain uses WebKit/JSC memory corruption for JavaScript-level read-write access, bypasses PAC for native calls, escapes the WebContent sandbox and escalates kernel privileges to root, then exfiltrates Keychain and wallet data. Affected versions are iOS 13 through 26.5, and iOS users are urged to upgrade promptly.

TREE NEWS reports: USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana blockchain at 18:36 Beijing time on September 19. The mint adds to the stablecoin’s circulating supply on Solana, one of the networks where USDC issuer Circle has expanded issuance.

TREE NEWS reports: Garrett Jin withdrew 202,080 ZEC from Binance in two transfers on December 24, worth about $88.3 million at the time, and still holds the full position, now valued at roughly $320 million at $1,580 per ZEC. His 38,000 ZEC short on Hyperliquid, worth $60 million, shows an unrealized loss of $34.5 million and can be seen as a partial hedge against the spot holdings.

TREE NEWS update: MultiversX said its team is investigating a potential issue detected on the MultiversX mainnet, with user protection and network security its top priority. The project said it will issue a further update within the next 12 hours or as soon as it reaches a clear conclusion.

TREE NEWS reports: Jeffrey Huang, known as Machi Big Brother (@machibigbrother), holds long positions worth $131 million across three tokens: 32,600 ETH valued at $85.73 million, 495 BTC valued at $40.26 million, and 55,500 HYPE valued at $5.06 million. The liquidation prices for the ETH, BTC and HYPE positions stand at $2,517, $73,501 and $18.7 respectively.

TREE NEWS reports: Litecoinpool founder Jiang Zhuoler said his crypto-denominated trading gains have reached 34% after several months of trading, with USD-denominated gains at 92%, nearly double. He said position sizing, trading execution and coin selection drove the returns, adding that he still considers the market to be in a bull cycle and defaults to holding a fully invested ETH spot position. Shorts are mainly used to protect gains after spot rallies and reduce drawdowns, he said.

TREE NEWS update: The 20th Asian Games opened in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, at 17:00 Beijing time on September 19. Basketball player Hu Mingxuan and boxer Wu Yu carried China’s flag at the opening ceremony as the delegation’s flagbearers.

TREE NEWS reports: A prediction-market account with over $550,000 in profits bought $100,000 on JDG defeating IG in the LPL 2026 World Championship qualifier lower-bracket final, opening at an average price of 48¢ for 208,352.5 shares. The best-of-five match starts September 19 at 17:00, with the winner locking in the LPL fourth seed for the S16 Swiss stage and the loser’s season ending.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid’s open interest reached $16.36 billion, setting an all-time high for the decentralized perpetuals exchange. The figure surpasses the platform’s previous peak set on September 18, 2025. The record reflects rising leverage and trading activity on the on-chain derivatives venue.

TREE NEWS reports: The Federal Reserve has formally begun its rate-hike cycle, with markets pricing in roughly three more increases this year as oil approaches $100 a barrel. BIT research notes the setup differs from 2022: markets had priced eight hikes before the Fed moved then versus about 3.8 now, and core CPI excluding energy is still falling. Historically, six months after a first hike gold rose 11.5% and bitcoin 7.9%.

TREE NEWS reports: Prediction market predict.fun shows IG at a 54% probability of beating JDG in the LPL regional qualifier final, a best-of-five played at 5pm local time. The winner takes the LPL’s fourth seed and the region’s last ticket to the 2026 World Championship; the loser’s season ends. IG lost 1:3 to TES in the first qualifying round, while JDG beat WE 3:1 on Tuesday.

TREE NEWS update: Vietnam plans to issue its first licenses to crypto asset service providers in 2026 under a pilot legal framework, allowing the first digital asset platforms to begin operating. Deputy Finance Minister Nguyen Duc Chi met Austria’s FMA executive director Mariana Kuhnel in Vienna on Sept. 15 to discuss bilateral cooperation and regulatory experience. State Securities Commission chairwoman Vu Thi Chan Phuong said the regime will cover service providers and investor trading, focusing on risk management, investor asset protection and anti-money laundering.

TREE NEWS reports: An entity represented by Garrett Jin that accumulated 100,800 BTC at an average of about $7,242 in May-June 2018 saw a 213,000 ETH long on Hyperliquid liquidated in early February 2026 as ETH fell from $3,000 to $1,800, losing roughly $230 million in margin. The entity has sold about 89,000 BTC since August 2025 and bought about 900,000 ETH at an average cost above $3,500.

TREE NEWS update: A former Hong Kong banking official has been sentenced to four years in prison over false letters of credit worth $1.6 billion and for accepting $470,000 in cryptocurrency bribes, a court ruling showed. The case involved the issuance of fraudulent credit instruments alongside crypto-linked payments to the former banker.

TREE NEWS reports: An address bought another 2,086 ETH at an average price of $2,599 over the past 15 hours, worth $5.42 million. Since yesterday the address has accumulated 9,058.19 ETH by selling UBTC and buying ETH, at an average cost of $2,492.62, for a total position above $22.5 million and an unrealized gain of $1.22 million.